Book layout

[Jan Morén]

Maybe passepartout could work?

http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/


And I believe at least some people (ab)use glabels as a quick-and-dirty
layouter as well.


fre 2004-12-24 klockan 00:51 +0100 skrev Søren Hauberg:
> Hi
> First of all, thanks to all the people who suggested scribus (on and off 
> the list) - I'm looking into that right now.
> 
> Wander Boessenkool wrote:
> [snip]
> > Time to teach your father how to use the Gimp for the retouching
> Oh, but he's already doing that. I think I should say that he tried 
> photoshop
> a while back, but gave up. With gimp I just had to show him how to start 
> the program
> and he just simply started to learn. I didn't even have to teach him 
> (off course he's only doing simple stuff).
> 
> [snip]
> > First off: Scribus would indeed be a good choice, but if your father
> > (who I guess is somewhat technical) doesn't mind learning some new
> > tricks you might also look in to LaTeX. There are some graphical
> > frontends to it, although none spring to mind right now (I edit using
> > vi).
> I'm a LaTeX man myself (I love saying that to people who don't known 
> TeX) but I allways felt that dealing with graphics was a bit of a pain. 
> It's great for text (it's the best), but maybe I don't know the right 
> packages?
> 
> Anyway, my father is not that technical and likes to keep things visual 
> (remember he's an architect) so unless better gui's exist than LyX I 
> think LaTeX is a bit to hard (allthough he was/is a big fan of 
> WordPerfect 5.1, and that's very much the same as LaTeX).
> 
> Thanks,
> /Søren
> 
> [snip]
> 
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